Improvement in carriage-curtain fastenings



c. P. KETTE RER. Carriage-Curtain Fastenin'g.

Patented May 25,1875.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEroE CHARLES P. KETTERER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-CURTAIN FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,663, dated May 25,1875; application filed April 2, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES P. KETTERER, ofthe city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement inFastenings for Carriage-Curtains, of which the following is aspecification:

Fastenings have been made of a button with a projection or ward at oneside that has to be turned upwardly when the eyelet of the curtain ispassed over the same, said eyelet being notched at the upper edge forsaid ward to pass through, after which the button is turned suflicientlyto bring the ward to the lower side. In other instances the button hasbeen made with a cross-piece or T-end, and buttons have been made withone arm, and each attached by a screw upon which it turns, and somecurtain-fastenings have been made with eccentric heads. I make use of aheaded pin inserted through and confined by the plate that is screwed toplace, and the pin is bent in the shape of theletter L, or nearly so, inorder that the curtain may be retained upon the horizontal portion bythe end' that hangs down but the curtain is easily liberated by aquarter revolution of the pin to bring the bent end nearly horizontal,so that the eyelet of the curtain can be slipped on or off said pin.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical section, and Fig. 2 is anelevation, of the fastening as in use 5 and Fig. 3 is a perspective Viewrepresenting the way in which the curtain is placed upon or withdrawnfrom said pin.

The socket-plate a has a hole through it large enough for the pin 1),and recessed for its head 0, and the plate a is secured in its placeupon the carriage or other vehicle by the screws d, and the size of theopening in the socket is sufficient to allow the pin to he turnedfree1y, but a disk of rubber or leather may be used at the back of thehead to pro duce sufficient friction when the plate a is screwed toplace to hold the pin 1) in any position to which it may be turned. Theend of the pin is bent oft nearly at right angles to the body in thesocket, as shown, so that the curtain f will be secured by passing itseyelet over the end of the pin, and then turning such pin with the bentend downwardly.

I claim as my invention- As a fastening for carriage-curtains, thecombination of plate a, screws cl, and the bentheaded pin 1) that passesthrough a countersunk hole in said plate a, all substantially as setforth.

Signed by me this 29th day of March, A. D. 187 5.

CHARLES I. KETTERER.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH.

